NHER 19090 (Find Spot) - Prehistoric worked flints and multi-period pottery

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Summary

Prehistoric flints, including a possible Mesolithic blade, and fragments of pottery dating from the Neolithic to the post medieval period were recovered during a systematic fieldwalking survey.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF70SW
Civil Parish BARTON BENDISH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

21 February 1983. Barton Bendish Survey fieldwalking.
Site BB 59.
Fieldwalking in medium conditions. Large field walked but only finds made at [1] (Context 1):
2 flint flakes. According to (S1) one of these was subsequently identified as a potentially Mesolithic blade.
1 Grimston glazed? sherd.
Identified A. Rogerson (NAU) April 1983.
A. Rogerson April 1983. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 November 2013.

6 March 1987. Rewalked, ploughed, rather hurriedly. Contexts 2 to 4.
Prehistoric sherds in concentration.
Thetford type ware.
Medieval sherds including Grimston and St. Neots.
Roman sherds.
Flints.
Beaker sherds.
Neolithic/Bronze Age sherds.
See list in file, plot under NHER 23911.
A. Rogerson (NAU) and E. Rose (NAU) 20 August 1987.

INDCC04032024HG - PAS details awaited (finder's 'Field 318') [2].
Extended to whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 5.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2024.

  • <S1> Article in Monograph: Rogerson, A. and Davison, A. 1997. An archaeological and historical survey of the parish of Barton Bendish. Barton Bendish and Caldecote: fieldwork in south-west Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. Rogerson, A. et al.. No 80 pp 1-42. p 6.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 59. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 681. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 682. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 683. BB.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 25 2024 11:05AM

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